It’s taken a long time – late April through early May was hectic – but today I’m thrilled to finally announce the launch of the “Organic Chemistry Reagent Guide“, a guide designed especially for undergraduate students taking Org1/Org 2. It’s has pretty much all the reagents you need to know about, from Ag2O to Zn(Hg).

This document is the result of well over a hundred hours condensing and summarizing all the information about reagents from standard textbooks – their structures, reactions, and mechanisms – and putting them all in one place for easy reference.

This 68-page, full color PDF has all kinds of ChemDrawed goodness, including:

-a front section with extensive tables, including lists of acids, bases, oxidizing agents, reducing agents, reagents that add to aromatic rings, and organometallic reagents. Plus tables of common abbreviations, solvents, and pKas. There’s even a guide to Greek!

-a back section with profiles on over 80 reagents, including their structures, common names, reactions, and mechanisms

-a quick-reference index, with 2 pages of condensed information on every reagent covered in the book.

As far as I know there isn’t anything else like this available. I hope this is the perfect desktop companion for anyone taking introductory organic chemistry.

I want to thank all the students, friends and colleagues who were able to look over the first draft and give helpful suggestions, and especially to those who suggested I do this in the first place.

Two more things:

Accuracy is paramount for a document like this. I pay a bounty for typos and mistakes. If you buy the Guide, and tell me about any typos or mistakes you find – or have suggestions for things that have been omitted – I’ll send you a $5 reward through Paypal.

You can use it risk free. If you are not completely satisfied that this is a useful guide for your course, I will give you a refund within 30 days of purchase.

Normal price: $35

Special Launch price: $25

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UPDATE – version 2.0 released with even more reagents and spiffier graphics. Due to all the additional time spent to make the new version so polished, the regular price is now in effect.

About Master Organic Chemistry

After doing a PhD in organic synthesis at McGill and a postdoc at MIT, I applied for faculty positions at universities and it didn’t work out, yada yada yada. So I decided to teach organic chemistry anyway! Master Organic Chemistry is the resource I wish I had when I was learning the subject.